Green Day Tour Dates

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Green Day Announce U.S. 2010 Tour Dates

Green Day have announced a new series of North American tour dates in support of their Grammy-winning album, 21st Century Breakdown. The tour, which kicks off August 3 in Camden, New Jersey, will employ flat-rate ticket pricing, presumably to eliminate any surprises regarding add-on fees.

Tickets go on sale in select markets beginning March 26, at which time they can be purchased at Livenation.com. In addition to regular seating, a limited number of lawn seats will be offered at a price of $20.
Released in the summer of 2009, 21st Century Breakdown debuted at Number One on several Billboard charts, including the Top 200, and has since been gold-certified.

In other Green Day news, the Broadway premiere of the stage version of American Idiot, the group’s 2004 album, is set for April 20 at New York’s St. James Theater. Last November, the show completed a successful three-month run at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in Berkeley, California.  ... Source ...

Green Day Announces North American Tour: Round Two for 2010
Green Day has announced the second leg of its North American tour in support of its 2009 gold-certified and Grammy-winning album, 21st Century Breakdown (Reprise). In keeping with the trio's longtime punk ethics, the ticket prices for this tour will be all-inclusive, meaning that fans won't be expected to pay any additional fees or surcharges. Lawn seats for this tour are priced at $20 and will be limited in numbers. Select dates will go on sale March 26 through Live Nation, and more dates will be announced soon.

Green Day is also preparing for the Broadway premiere of American Idiot, the theater adaptation of its 2004 critically acclaimed album of the same title. The show is heading to New York City after a record-breaking three-month stint at the Berkeley Repertory Theater. Directed by Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer, who collaborated on the story with Green Day guitarist/vocalist Billy Joe Armstrong, American Idiot opens on April 20 at the St. James Theater.  ... Source ...

Green Day Reveal Summer Dates of “21st Century Breakdown” 2010 Tour
Green Day’s upcoming American Idiot Broadway musical, which official opens April 20th at New York’s St. James Theatre, won’t be the only venue to hear the band’s music live this summer. The 21st Century Breakdown trio have announced a fresh tour that kicks off August 3rd in Camden, New Jersey. AFI will open and tickets start going on sale March 26th via Live Nation.

For the tour, Green Day will offer up all-inclusive ticket prices, meaning that no extra fees of any kind will be added on. Plus, at some venues, there will be a limited number of lawn seats priced at $20 when the tix go on sale to the general public. One thing to keep an eye on: Just two dates into the tour, Green Day have allotted themselves a nice four-day break between an August 5th show in Buffalo, New York and an August 9th concert in Alpharetta, Georgia. What’s going on August 6th through 8th, you ask? The Lollapalooza festival in Chicago. Green Day have been rumored to be one of the headliners at the annual fest, so Windy City fans should pencil those dates into their calendar. Lollapalooza will officially announce its lineup on April 6th, per Perry Farrell’s Twitter.

The band promises to add more dates to their initial itinerary in the near future.  ... Source ...

Green Day Announce Summer Tour for 2010
The outing kicks off in Camden, NJ, on August 3, and will hit cities across the country, including Detroit, Dallas, Denver, and Los Angeles, through September. Only 14 dates have been announced so far, with more expected in the coming weeks. Tickets go on sale for select gigs on March 26 via LiveNation.com.

If their concerts last summer are any indication, Green Day's upcoming tour is not to be missed. The Bay Area band previewed their monstrous first Breakdown tour -- including a new stage set, featuring bright lights and a cityscape backdrop -- with a secret show in Oakland last April.

In July, Green Day opened the tour in Seattle, where Billie Joe Armstrong "pulled onstage no less than six ecstatic fans from the front row and gave each the spotlight," wrote SPIN's Jonathan Zwickel. "Armstrong even handed off his axe to a tall, gawky teenager he pulled from the pit -- "You know 'Jesus of Suburbia,' swear to God?" -- and let the kid run, note-perfect, through all of the American Idiot epic." Read the full review here.

The upcoming tour isn't all Green Day have on deck. American Idiot, the new musical based on their 2004 album of the same name, produced by Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening), will premiere at Broadway's St. James Theatre on April 20. SPIN caught the show when it first opened in Oakland last fall.

It's shaping up to be an awesome summer for live music.

Not only have Paramore and Tegan & Sara just confirmed dates for their joint summer trek, pop-punk giants Green Day today announced a North American tour, their second in support of their chart-topping 2009 release, 21st Century Breakdown, which snagged a Grammy for Best Rock Album. AFI will open all shows.  ... Source ...

GREEN DAY BIO (Brief) :

Out of all the post-Nirvana alternative bands to break into the pop mainstream, Green Day were second only to Pearl Jam in terms of influence. At their core, Green Day were simply punk revivalists who recharged the energy of speedy, catchy three-chord punk-pop songs. Though their music wasn't particularly innovative, they brought the sound of late-'70s punk to a new, younger generation with Dookie, their 1994 major-label debut. Dookie sold over ten million copies, paving the way for a string of multi-platinum releases that opened the doors for a flood of American neo-punk, punk metal, and third wave ska revivalists. More than a decade later, as many of their former contemporaries settled into retirement, Green Day remained at the forefront of popular music with albums like the Grammy-winning American Idiot.

Green Day arose from the Northern California underground punk scene. Childhood friends Billie Joe Armstrong (guitar, vocals) and Mike Dirnt (bass; born Mike Pritchard) formed their first band, Sweet Children, in Rodeo, CA, when they were 14 years old. By 1989, the group had added drummer Al Sobrante and changed its name to Green Day. That same year, the band independently released its first EP, 1000 Hours, which was well received in the California hardcore punk scene. Soon, the group had signed a contract with the local independent label Lookout. Green Day's first full album, 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hour, was released later that year. Shortly after its release, the band replaced Sobrante with Tre Cool (born Frank Edwin Wright III), who became the band's permanent drummer.

Throughout the early '90s, Green Day continued to cultivate a cult following, which only gained strength with the release of their second album, 1992's Kerplunk. The underground success of Kerplunk led to a wave of interest from major record labels, and the band eventually decided to sign with Reprise. Dookie, Green Day's major-label debut, was released in the spring of 1994. Thanks to MTV support for the initial single, "Longview," Dookie became a major hit. The album continued to gain momentum throughout the summer, with the second single, "Basket Case," spending five weeks on the top of the American modern rock charts. At the end of the summer, the band stole the show at Woodstock '94, which helped the sales of Dookie increase. By the time the fourth single, "When I Come Around," began its seven-week stay at number one on the modern rock charts in early 1995, Dookie had sold over five million copies in the U.S. alone; it would eventually top ten million in America, selling over 15 million copies internationally. Dookie also won the 1994 Grammy for Best Alternative Music Performance.

Green Day quickly followed Dookie with Insomniac in the fall of 1995; during the summer, they hit number one again on the modern rock charts with "J.A.R.," their contribution to the Angus soundtrack. Insomniac performed well initially, entering the U.S. charts at number two and selling over two million copies by the spring of 1996, yet none of its singles -- including the radio favorite "Brain Stew/Jaded" -- were as popular as those from Dookie. In the spring of 1996, Green Day abruptly canceled a European tour, claiming exhaustion. Following the cancellation, the band spent the rest of the year resting and writing new material before issuing Nimrod in late 1997. Three years later, their long-awaited follow-up, a refreshingly poppy record titled Warning, was released. Another long wait preceded 2004's American Idiot, an aggressive rock opera that became a surprise success -- a chart-topper around the world, a multi-platinum Grammy winner, and easily the best reviewed album of their career. Green Day reveled in the album's success, hitting numerous award shows and performing as part of Live 8 in July 2005. That fall brought the release of Bullet in a Bible, a concert album that documented the trio's expansive Idiot live show.

With their popularity and commercial viability restored, Green Day took on several small projects before returning to the studio. They contributed a cover of John Lennon's "Working Class Hero" to the charity album Instant Karma, appeared in The Simpsons Movie, and recorded an entire album of '60s-styled rock & roll under the alias of Foxboro Hot Tubs. While presenting an award at the Grammys in early 2009, the band announced the impending release of Green Day's eighth album, 21st Century Breakdown, which had been recorded with veteran producer Butch Vig. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide ... Source ...

MORE GREEN DAY INFORMATION :

Punk revivalists in style, this raucous trio achieved triple-platinum status with their major-label debut, Dookie. Although Green Day's taut, three-minute, guitar-driven songs ably revive the fierceness of the group's stylistic progenitors (the Who, the Clash and the Sex Pistols), punk's original aim — to annoy, outrage, shock — is not Green Day's thing.

Friends since age 10, Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt grew up in Rodeo, California. They formed their first real band, Sweet Children, at 14. When they were 17, the pair first recorded as Green Day, signing with the punk label Lookout and releasing the 1989 EP 1,000 Hours with drummer John Kiffmeyer. The next year, the group recorded its first full-length album, 39/Smooth, in a day. Two more EPs followed, with Kiffmeyer leaving to focus on his studies and Tre Cool, with whom Armstrong had played in a band

called the Lookouts, taking over on drums for 1992's Kerplunk. With a solid fanbase built on the nurturing, all-ages hardcore scene in Berkeley, the group signed with Reprise in April 1993. Its 1994 release, Dookie, proclaimed the next generation of punk, hitting Number Four on the album chart, buoyed by the band's effervescent presence on MTV and at Lollapalooza and Woodstock '94. The album won a 1994 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Performance and sold 10 million copies worldwide.

The 1995 follow-up Insomniac sold nearly 3 million copies and charted at Number Two, but failed to repeat the success of the band's major-label debut. Nimrod (Number 10, 1997) sold a million copies but won fresh exposure for the group, largely on the strength of the ballad "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)." In 2000, Green Day released Warning (Number Four), a more introspective, even folk-influenced record that showed the group stretching artistically. Despite producing the radio hit "Minority," the album was a commercial letdown, selling fewer than a million copies. Two compilations followed: A best-of, International Superhits! (Number 40, 2001), and the B-sides round-up Shenanigans (Number 27, 2002).

By the early '00s, there was a growing consensus that Green Day's cachet was in decline, as evidenced by the band's slowing album sales. That belief that was put to rest with the release of American Idiot (Number One, 2004), a multiplatinum, Grammy-winning rock opera with political overtones that restated Green Day as one of the biggest musical acts in the world. Produced by Rob Cavallo, Idiot is grandiose — two of the songs are multi-part suites that clock in at nearly 10 minutes — but never show-offy. Five singles were released, all of them hits: The title track (Number 61, 2004), "Wake Me Up When September Ends" (Number Six, 2005), "Holiday" (Number 19, 2005), "Jesus of Suburbia" (Number 27 Modern Rock, 2005) and "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (2004), the latter a ballad that came one slot away from being Green Day's first Number One single.

Following extensive touring, Green Day recorded a cover of the Skids' "The Saints Are Coming" (Number 51, 2006) with U2, which was released to raise awareness for musicians whose lives had been disrupted by Hurricane Katrina. In 2007, the band appeared on both American Idol — where they performed a version of John Lennon's "Working Class Hero" (Number 53) — and in The Simpsons Movie. That year the band also began a side project — that they at first kept secret — called Foxboro Hot Tubs, a group that also features Jason White, Josh Freese and Kevin Preston. In May 2008, the band issued its first LP, a garage album called Stop Drop and Roll!!!, and went on a brief tour. Armstrong also revived his other side project, Pinhead Gun Powder, who played their first show since 2001 in February 2008.
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